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IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THIS CD-ROM
4/6/94
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OVERVIEW
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This is the first CD-ROM in my "FrozenFish" (TM) series. This file contains
important information that applies to this particular CD-ROM, and points out
other important files that you should read.
For general information about the Amiga Library CD-ROM's, detailed informa-
tion about the contents of this particular CD-ROM, and other important in-
formation, read the various files in the "Information" directory.
Also sure to read the LEGAL-NOTICE, COPYRIGHT, WARRANTY, and SHAREWARE files
if you have not done so before. If you plan to use this CD-ROM in a BBS or
anonymous FTP environment, the BBS/README file will be particularly useful
to you.
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CONTENTS OVERVIEW
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This CD-ROM contains 6128 archives in BBS or FTP ready form, with individual
descriptions of the contents of each archive, in the form of a "product
info" file for each archive. For further details about the structure of a
product info file, see the file Information/Product-Infos.
There is a total of 649 Mb of material on this CD-ROM, broken down as
follows:
Size
(Mb) Archives
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426 5552 "Fish disks" 1-1000, archived on a per-submission basis.
83 126 GNU tools distribution in source and binary form.
12 91 New material submissions from Oct 93 FreshFish CD-ROM.
23 145 New material submissions from Dec 93 FreshFish CD-ROM.
9 50 New material submissions from Mar 94 FreshFish CD-ROM.
42 103 Preview of some material to be on May 94 FreshFish CD.
32 56 Useful tools, libraries, documentation, PasTeX, etc.
2 5 Commodore includes, libs, and developer tools (V37-40).
17 - Database of material included on this CD-ROM.
3 - Miscellaneous CD-ROM admin tools and documentation.
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LOCATING MATERIAL
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Included on this CD-ROM are two different programs for finding specific
material, or types of material, that you may be looking for. The first
program is "A-Kwic", which does keyword searches on a database that is built
from the included product info files. The second program is a new beta
version of "KingFisher", which is included under the "KingFisher" directory.
This program also uses a database which is built from the included product
info files.
Eventually there will be databases that cover all of my previous CD-ROM's
and the complete contents of the floppy library. These will be included on
a future CD-ROM.
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LHA ARCHIVES
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Almost all the archives on this CD-ROM are in "lha format". The shareware
version of lha is included in the :c directory of this CD-ROM, so all you
have to do to unpack any archive is use a command of the form:
lha -mraxe x archive.lha
Please consider registering with the lha author, Stefan Boberg, for the
latest version of lha, so he can continue to support this fine program.
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GZIP COMPRESSED TAR ARCHIVES
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A few archives here are in what is known as "compressed tar archive"
format. These are archives that are made with "tar" and then compressed
with the "gzip" compressor. Generally they are the original unchanged
archives for GNU distributions, exactly as released by the Free Software
Foundation. To unpack them, you can do:
gzip -d foo.tar.gz
tar -xvf foo.tar
or if you have a shell that supports pipes, you can avoid making the
uncompressed tar archive (which might be quite large), and simply do:
gzip -d <foo.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
Both gzip and tar are included in the ":C" directory on this CD-ROM.
Both require the ixemul.library from ":LIBS" to be found in your LIBS:
path. You should also set your stack value to some large value, like
50000 or higher.
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USER FEEDBACK NEEDED
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I am always interested in hearing about things that might make this CD-ROM
more useful for users. It is particularly important at this stage that I
get feedback from users about problems that need fixing, or suggestions on
how to make the CD-ROM more useful.
You can FAX your comments to me at (602) 917-0917, however please understand
that I may not be able to respond to, or even acknowledge receipt of, every
problem report and suggestion that arrives.
-Fred Fish ><>